Morgan is on Jesus' team!!

For a couple of weeks now, on Sunday night Morgan has come home talking about being on Jesus' team. We talked with her about it and told her when she wanted to ask Jesus in her heart to let us know and we would pray with her. Tonight at bedtime, Morgan told Jesus she was ready to ask Jesus in her heart. Josh prayed with her and afterwards her face was just glowing. She is so excited to be on Jesus' team!! Yeah God!

We are very proud of you & We Love you Morgan!

Cardio Appointment

Monday, Caden went back to his cardiologist. It had been 6 months already! Boy how time flies! Anyway, Caden had an echo done. He did AWESOME! You can sure tell how much older he is getting by how well he lays still. It used to be quite a struggle! I still packed a bag of entertainment just to be safe, but his sweeper cards pretty much did the trick this time! After the echo we waited on the Dr.... and waited, and waited! An hour and a half to be exact. But we understand, we love his cardiologist and we understand he takes his time with this patients. We used to get a lot of his time as well. Now I am happy to say... we don't have to talk about the next surgery, or medicine adjustments or heart enlargements, or anything else like that. This visit went more like this.....
Caden still has leaky valves* (he has always had leaky valves),we will up his blood pressure meds to stay on top of the leak. Dr asked how is he was doing..... well, he is an EXTREMELY active 3 year old! His response.... EXTREMELY good! He listened to Caden's heart for awhile. For those of you who may not know.... Caden's heart sounds very different an a normal heart! Then we asked a couple of questions.... First being, what actives can he be involved in? Josh is very interested in putting Caden in flag football at the Y this fall. We got the A-OK to do this. Josh also asked if Caden would be allowed to place baseball... Dr said that would be the perfect sport for him. They talked sports equipment for a few minutes, what Caden might need for a little chest protection and all was well. My only question of the day was, what is Caden's diagnosis? Dr questioned me... asking if I really wanted to know.... Yes, Dr. I do. He thought it would be best if he wrote it down for me. He then told me, Caden has.... Double inlet left ventricle, pulmonary atresia, L-transposition. For those of you who just read that and are completely lost that simply means.... Caden has a single functioning ventricle (his left one). He was born with out his right ventricle.... L-transposition means his arteries (pulmonary and aorta) are switched.... blood flow going in the wrong direction, but in Caden's case did not need to be fixed because of the missing right ventricle. Ok, enough about that... I don't want to confuse anyone, probably already have. But just know Caden is an amazing 3 year old boy, who has been through an amazing amount of "stuff" his three short years of life. We are praying for a hospital free year this year!

* leaky valves... fluid leaking from his heart into his lungs, causing his shortness of breath.

We would just like to thank everyone for the prayers for our little guy! We believe he would not be with us with out them!!!



Caden with Dr. Ghazali... the best pediatric cardiologist!!! We Love him!


Caden with his surgeon, Dr. Mark Rodefeld! He is an awesome Dr. We Love him too!